OpenWrt can't connect to internet

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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Linksys EA3500, tried several openwrt builds. Openwrt used to run nicely until my curious mind forced me to install new firmware, on both partitions.

Being used as a wireless AP with DHCP, ipv6 and firewall disabled and LAN set to static 192.168.1.251, FIOS main router at 192.168.1.1.

Openwrt connected LAN to LAN to the FIOS router. Tried FIOS LAN to Openwrt WAN.

Can access internet using LAN and WiFi. Can SCP not SSH into the router with winscp, can SSH into it with windows CMD.

UHTTP did not install with any of the firmware attempts, not just snapshots. opkg cannot update because it can't get to the internet.

The router is working fine as an AP both WiFi and ethernet, I can use uci and winscp or ssh via CMD to edit files.

I have tried to set the LAN address to a different segment (192.168.2.1) with a complete failure , had to use the reset button the get scp/ssh access.

Why can't Openwrt get to the internet but connections to the router/switch can?

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???

(This is installed by default on the release versions.)

  • Did you set a DNS and gateway?
  • Did you follow the Dumb AP guide? :wink:
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DNS on LAN set to 192.168.1.1. Tried setting it to 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8 and 208.67.222.222. Main router did same.
Could not connect to internet before doing anything except changing the LAN address. The only changes made to the virgin FW is the LAN gateway, DNS and ipaddr.
Followed both versions of the AP guide; Dumb AP and Bridged AP. The Dumb AP tut is for pre 21.02 so is out of date.

I know UHTTP is supposed to install by default, that is why I mentioned both snapshot and release.

I guess I should have said SFTP instead of SSH; now that I think, that is not an issue, I know SFTP is not included..

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I didn't do anything and opkg update suddenly works.
installed Luci and connected.

Magic! After a week of piddling.

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